If not for smart-phones I wouldn't know what day of the week it is at all.  Too many years working in jobs where Saturday was just another day, and now again with a six day week, so my weekends keep shifting.

Anyway: THings for the party to mull over (The big post I promised this morning):

You've got a fully stocked 'shuttle' craft docked in a dedicated hanger/bay off the cargo-bay. You can't use it at your current speed (well, you can, but the risk/reward ratio simply isn't there...).
You have a Big Locked Door (Ship's Vault) that you can't access.
You can fight over who gets that sweet, sweet Captain's Cabin.
Robertson is, as far as I know, still wandering around freely doing mostly pointless maintenance.
At some point she, or someone, started milling new railgun rounds out of the scrap metal, but at 100kg apiece she apparently was unable to move them into the loading bays, so they're littering the workshop.
You're all still speaking in a language none of you have ever learned
There are locked metal crates in the Cargo Bay


Alijandro's visit to the Med Bay reveals a fully stocked but somewhat neglected high tech medical bay... more high tech than the rest of the ship (TL 15 vs TL 12). Assuming assistance from a character with Medic, scan's reveal no signs of disease or significant medical conditions aside from a little light dehydration. Prescribe drinking water to cure.

Regarding Jumping: Who's handling the Engineering: Jump Drive check?  There is a star a 'short jump' away, as noted earlier if you wait a year or so you'll be passing near, but not through, the system. You have enough fuel (Barely) to make the jump, which means you'll be desperate to refuel in system when you get there.  

Traditionally (in traveller) that means scooping atmosphere from a Gas Giant or water from a more terrestrial world, though in emergencies mining ice from asteroids is possible. The Frozen Elegy is not designed for atmosphere and has no scoops, the shuttle (a 30 Launch in Trav terms) is configured for fuel hauling, requiring several trips, the raw material being fed through Fuel Processors to refine liquid Hydrogen.

Or, of course, docking at a star-port and simply buying Fuel, though in your current state it would be most likely 'bartering' for fuel, and something other than pressed protein bars for food.

Ramirez has Engineering - Jump Drive - 0, if no other PC has it, we could ask Robertson.

... :confused: ... :eek: I attack the gazebo! :mad:

Everyone said they wouldn't be on this weekend.  

I've done the roles for the Jump, assuming that is what you will be doing (to be honest I feel like I accidentally feel like I set up a railroad. I keep hoping you'll come up with a clever idea I can use to assuage my guilt? No? Damn!).

But you guys will be in Jump for a week because Traveller, so you've got time to interact and explore the ship.

So in our complex and exacting jump calculations what do we find out.  I feel like the lost chinaman tribe.  Wheredafucarwee!

Is the system we are jumping too in any kind of data base?  Can I find the base star?  Navigators must have land marks to orient themselves?  Sirius is a fuck off huge blue giant right?  Ploting a straight line (straight when you factor in how gravity wells curve space) path backwards, where did we come from? We know our acceleration, if we can find the distance we should be able to figure out how long we have been travling.

What kind of star are we going to?  

No stars where we are?  What does that mean?  Are we between arms of the spiral galaxy?

Your ship's computer is crippled, no database, no star charts no nothing.  From this distance there isn't much you can tell about where you are going, other than (at a minimum) you should be able to get your mad flight under control and hopefully should be able to get some fuel there from one of the sources I mentioned earlier.  If there are people there, ships and all of that you can get more answers.

As for the no stars thing: while it is impossible to guess how it happened, its almost as if something just ripped a chunk out of this sector of space, leaving nothing but emptiness. Its dozens of parsecs wide where you are at and seems to extend lengthwise all the way to the edge of the spiral arm.  Its not completely empty, sensors pick up the usual trace gasses and dust, though in smaller proportions than usual, and it seems a few scattered stars did survive.


I may not be using the built in traveller setting, but I'm sure as hell stealing their star maps.  You appear to be crossing what is (in the Traveller) known as the Great Rift. Where it came from, how it came to be, none of you know, as it was a normal region of space when you went to sleep.


Regarding character sheets: I'm not entirely sure I've solved all the technical problems on my end, but assuming I do (and its looking like you'll get cheap typed docs rather than pretty sheets... if...  nevermind, THAT problem is solved at least. Now, about my chronic procrastination... ) do you want them shared openly or would you rather I send them to each of you individually?


EDIT::::  https://travellermap.com

While the world information and geopolitical information isn't going to line up, this is the starmap for the settled patch of space, as I recall its good for about three hundred light years in any given direction... in radius it looks like.  You're in that feature labled the Great Rift, a bit 'north' of that dotted line.  The Solomani region is the area around Earth, more or less, and is wild, poorly settled space.  Don't worry about the Zhodani Consulate, though thats the direction your heading (again: Not Traveller setting, but I am stealing that wonderful map. Seriously. Play with it, its fucking awesome).  

The Aslan area and the Imperium area do more or less line up in my setting, though the history of both is different. Everything else?

Character sheet separately please.  

What is the first thing behind us in a straight line?  Are the sensors working?  With out a data base we won't be able to tell what star itt is, but we will know how far away it is.

Cool thoughts on the setting, look forward to what you make of it.

As to character sheets, I'm fine with it being public. I'm also fine with it being simple, Mongoose Traveller has a bit more to it that the Classic Traveller I am most used to, but I think it still lends itself to a very basic character sheet or even a few lines listing stats, skills, gear, and a few other notes.

Ok, so I've scanned three character sheets in (Problems solved!), but sadly they are JPG files, rather than PDFs or something cool, so I'll send links out. I've still got one to go, but I've got to get to work!

Behind you the Rift extends for dozens of parsecs at least.  Assuming you didn't start somewhere inside the Rift you've been flying for upwards of a century, though since no one has ever managed to go this fast in real-space, the relativity effects on the ship are less precise to estimate.  While a hilarously bad roll might have been fun, you're knowledge of science suggests its probable that the ship's relative time is less than halved... so perhaps you've been flying from the ship's perspective for sixty or seventy years?

Assuming, again, you didn't start IN the Rift, and estimating from its edge.  Since you've never seen or heard of such a Rift, its possible that you've cross a huge swath of the galaxy, in which case you've been flying for many thousands of years, though that would be silly.



EDIT: Your ship sensors are largely 'real world' things like Radar/Lidar. Better than we've got now, but no long range scans of life forms etc. To know what's in a star system someone pretty much has to go and check it out.   The computer can filter data pretty well, even crippled, to give you triangulation distances (allowing you to jump reasonably safely) and things like that.

Well as long as our life support is good, it's time for some booze & catching up with the news.

Quote from: Spike;1003047....you're knowledge of science suggests its probable that the ship's relative time is less than halved... so perhaps you've been flying from the ship's perspective for sixty or seventy years?

Assuming, again, you didn't start IN the Rift, and estimating from its edge.  Since you've never seen or heard of such a Rift, its possible that you've cross a huge swath of the galaxy, in which case you've been flying for many thousands of years, though that would be silly.

Can I get an upper limit?  I'll take 60 years as the lower limit.  Deffinatly the lower limit sinice I'm on a ship from a polity that didn't exist when I went into the ice.

Upper limit?

Theoretically: Infinity, though one supposes with powerful enough sensors and accurate star maps you'd find at least one impassible obstacle (star probably) directly in your path SOMEWHERE backwards.

There is the practical matter of fuel consumption, but you are not an expert on fusion power plants, certainly not enough to suggest just how low powered they can be tuned before they just go out.  

Of course, sixty years SOUNDS way to long for the fuel to have lasted, and then there is the matter of Robertson, who might be thirty, if she stood on her tip toes and squinted hard.  She does seem to be avoiding the lot of you... casual like.

Headless: when you refer to 'The bot' are you talking about Robertson???

Quote from: Spike;1003435Headless: when you refer to 'The bot' are you talking about Robertson???

Yep.  In my in character experience a year of clock like precision for meaningless.tasks can only be done by a computer.

Ah, I suspected as much.  

Regarding 'blowing' the vault... anyone familiar with starships would know that a Ship's Vault is designed to survive the total destruction of the starship its in.  Even if you had anything more potent than the liquid hydrogen fuel (which, honestly, is more of a threat to you than to any part of the ship...), if you DID blow the vault successfully you'd ALSO probably do serious harm to the ship.  Literally: The vault is TOUGHER than the ship itself!

That said: nothing is truly impregnable...   and now I'm starting to mentally do the math on just how heavy the door must be.... heh.